...please bear with me as I am not entirely knowledgable when it comes to this. Basically I had FTPed into my server and am creating a backup forum. I run vBulletin software. Along the way, I install a hack that allows me to mass import templates. In order to do that though, I have to chmod 777 the directory where the templates are uploaded to so I can import them. When I try right click on the templates file and change the chmod back to 644, I will click on it and I get the following error:

CWD templates
550 templates: Permission denied

The only way I can gain access to it again now is if I chmod 777 it again.

It turns out though on my backup forums that I can't even access the root/backup/forums directory now because I get this error:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /backup/forums/ on this server.


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Apache/1.3.22 Server at www.honda-acura.net Port 80

And it doesn't matter even if I chmod 777 the backup directory...it still does it. What could be the problem?

Also, everytime a fellow admin tries to FTP in, he gets a blank directory and can't go anywhere. I can see everthing using WS_FTP LE but if I use a different FTP client, I also get a blank page. What's going on?